MapLight

Grants to MapLight

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA —
MapLight collects, analyzes, and publishes millions of financial records to provide campaign contribution and lobbying expenditure data side-by-side with legislative votes in a single database. This allows citizens, journalists, and researchers to analyze monetary inputs and political outcomes in a large-scale, systematic way, though MapLight itself does not draw conclusions about cause and effect. Its services are free, and regularly inform national news reports, scholarly research, issue advocacy, court decisions, and legislative debates.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA —
MapLight documents the data showing possible connections between campaign contributions, lobbyists, and interest groups on legislative outcomes at the state and federal level. Its services are free, and regularly inform national news reports, scholarly research, issue advocacy, court decisions, and legislative debates. On its website, citizens and others can find out how each individual legislator voted, how much money legislators received from parties with an interest in a vote's outcome, how special-interest campaign contributions correlate with legislators' voting records, and what contributions were made to a legislator immediately before and after a vote took place.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded MapLight $325,000 between 2002 and
2015.

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